Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Just took 4 flights on American Airlines and I'm done, finished, never doing it again.

On the first flight out the entire cabin aisle was jammed with assholes in line for the crapper. Nobody told them to sit down and wait, there they were bouncing back and forth in the aisle bouncing off passengers sitting in the aisle. Then some crazy bitch with a hot cup of coffee joined the line holding this cup over aisle passengers heads, just waiting to boil some poor schmuck sitting under her steaming cup.

Did any flight attendant care about all this crap?

Fuck no.

The landing was no joy either. First time I've actually been in a plane that appeared to BOUNCE off the fucking runway when it landed. I was surprised that the remnants of the plane could make it to the terminal.

Now the real fun was the return trip home. We got put in some AA 757 that didn't look like it had been serviced in eons. Went to the lavatory and it was just plain vile. Nastiest shit I've ever seen on an airplane. In the row where we were seated, my seat was mangled, the velcro didn't hold the seat in place, it kept sliding out from under my ass. The seat next to mine had a fucked up cushion as well. Best yet, my wife's seat was broken and wouldn't stay in an upright position if you put any pressure on the back of the seat. Not to mention it was a full plane so we were stuck in the broken row we had.

The final landing was the best yet.

The guy in the row in front of me pulled his backpack out from under his seat and I'm stunned with what I see, a big fat cockroach clinging to his bag! When I told him about it and he tilted the bag to take a look the roach took off running, some women starting squealing, it was a real scene to behold.

Overall, I found the planes old, not well kept in the cabin, dirty and roaches pretty much says it all.

I forgot to mention on one flight all the magazines in the pouch in front of my seat were all stuck together with big gobs of chewing gum. The flight attendant took them away but never replaced them with new magazines, lazy shits.

Anyway, I won't be (willingly) doing AA again because I prefer to feel like I'm flying in an airplane, not slumming in a dirty ass rural bus in some 3rd world country.

5 comments:

Mandrake
said...

The AA international flights to and from Asia are pretty nice, and they have some handy direct routes so you don't have to transfer or lose your baggage.

Maintenance is worse than it once was all around. The airlines either have to delay departures or go with the problems. Some stuff they have to fix, such as seat belts, because its FAA mandated. I've been in a delayed flight because of that. There is less downtime for planes now, because of fuller flights, so you can't avoid some problems.

The cockroach story is pretty disgusting. It was probably in a passengers items if it was that big. If so, I'm not sure what American could have done about it. I wonder if airlines have pest control procedures.

The cockroach story is pretty disgusting. It was probably in a passengers items if it was that big. If so, I'm not sure what American could have done about it. I wonder if airlines have pest control procedures.